Numbers Update

**It is interesting that this article, written in September 2003, quotes Dr. Delaune as saying that they had 1 or 2 amputations per day. A modest count of March - August 6 months x 30 days = 360 amputees. That was over a year ago, yet the number reported in December 2004 is supposed to be only 200.**


"We see a lot of amputations," Delaune says. "Initially I was probably seeing one or two amputations a day. Now we're down to maybe one every two or three days," says Delaune. "The limbs just get damaged to a point where they can't be salvaged, and in the field hospitals where they're initially treated, an amputation is performed. We see a lot of eye injuries as well."

Until the middle of the summer, Dr. Delaune, 38, was living comfortably with his wife in Washington, D.C. He works as an emergency physician and instructor at George Washington University. Now on active duty, Delaune now helps airlift wounded troops out of Baghdad for hospitalization in places like Germany, and back home in the United States.
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